In article <10650068 at hpisod2.HP.COM>, decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes: > Hey, that's a good comp.unix.question. > > The answer is: > > banner "$2" | tr "#" "$1" > > Dave Decot > HP And, for all you folks that use banner to produce more than one line of output display at a time: MYvar=$1 shift banner "$*" | tr "#" "$MYvar"